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Narrating Crises of Trust in Post-Celtic Tiger Fiction
Full text linkThis article argues that post-Celtic Tiger fiction reflects the current crisis of trust and offers a perfect laboratory for the intersubjective negotiation of social practices of trust. Drawing on received and recent philosophical discussions of trust, the article first introduces the main parameters of this social phenomenon. Based on a corpus of about a dozen austerity novels, but with Donal Ryan’s The Spinning Heart as the main reference text, it then proceeds to establish (1) the general relevance of matters of trust for post-Celtic Tiger Fiction, and (2) the defining features of the narrative representation of social structures and performances of trust. Finally, in order to take into account not only trust-related issues and structures recurring in contemporary Irish austerity fiction, but to also point up pronounced differences in narrative form and ideological orientation among individual post-Tiger novels, it complements the reading of The Spinning Heart with an analysis of the narrative dynamics of ‘doing trust’ in Anne Enright’s The Forgotten Waltz (2011)
Somatopsychik: Gesundheit für Körper und Seele - Fachliche Grundlegung und praktische Anleitung aus kontrollpsychologischer Perspektive
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Doing Trust and Crisis Communication. Narratives of the 2021 Explosion in the Chempark Leverkusen
Full text linkAccording to governmental recommendations and scholarship concerning crisis communication, which have emerged from the 1980s onwards, an important characteristic of successful disaster-related crisis communication is its capacity for developing or restoring trust. This article demonstrates how, in the aftermath of a tank farm explosion on 27 July 2021 in the waste incineration plant Chem-park in Leverkusen, the managing company, Currenta, engaged in crisis communication in a way that can indeed be interpreted as a form of ‘doing trust.’ By offering a discourse analysis of the statements published by Currenta on a newly created info page and its Twitter account, the paper explores the emergence of a specific crisis narrative connected to that aim. Our study shows how Currenta’s crisis narrative depicted the company as trustworthy by referring to its attempts at reflecting the values of integrity, transparency and (willingness to) dialogue. We situate these attempts in the context of competing narratives which, disseminated by other actors such as journalists, environmental activists and individual social media users, ‘revealed’ an alleged deceptiveness of the company and presented it as untrustworthy
Logistische Optimierung der Citybelieferung mit Lastenrädern (LOOP): Fallstudie des Lastenradeinsatzes im Zuge der empfängerbezogenen Bündelung einer Düsseldorfer Stückgutspedition
Full text linkThe Shape of Things to Come. An Interview with Eva von Contzen
Full text linkIn this interview, Eva von Contzen introduces her current research project on retellings of premodern texts in contemporary narrative fiction. In this connection, she talks about the potential of historical and diachronic narratologies as an interdisciplinary undertaking that not only investigates storytelling practices at certain points in time, but that also examines narratives from different cultures
Introduction. Trust and Narratives of Crisis and Catastrophe
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Somatopsychic: Health for body and soul - Professional grounding and practical guidance from the perspective of control psychology
Full text linkRevision des kontrafaktischen Erzählens. Michael Navratil zeigt das politische Potenzial kontrafaktischer Gegenwartsliteratur auf
Full text linkRezension zu: Kontrafaktik der Gegenwart. Politisches Schreiben als Realitätsvariation bei Christian Kracht, Kathrin Röggla, Juli Zeh und Leif Randt. Berlin / Boston, MA: De Gruyter 2022 (= Gegenwartsliteratur). 607 S. EUR 39,95. ISBN 978-3-11-076296-
Telling Y(our) Story. Precarity of Trust in Contemporary Refugee Life Narratives
Full text linkEmerging from a growing number of conflicts and catastrophes in the twenty-first century, contemporary refugee life narratives are marked by a multiple erosion of trust, and yet are intimately engaged in rebuilding trust. In the face of material and legal constraints for refugees to speak, their life stories are frequently facilitated by new networks of solidarity to protest hostile immigration regimes, involving activists, lawyers, go-between writers, and translators, among others. These networks offer a safe space for testimony and work towards restoring trust while mutually inscribing biographers and biographical subjects in a relational act of telling y(our) story: The refugee’s tale – ‘your’ story – encapsulates the collaborative and trust-building tale of its making – ‘our’ story. Outlining a narratology of trust in refugee life-writing, the paper assesses the intricate and innovative dynamics of ‘hospitable form’ in acts of fictional accommodation, in multiperspectival emic and etic narratives, and in the interplay of auto- and heterobiographical storytelling